Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-29
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Western Cattle Shippers Have Suffered
Severe Less on Account Of the
scarcity OF Stock Cars.
The Benefits to Fort Worth OF the Union
stock YaEds-Fire on The Range.
Fine sheep sold.

stock Yards Fire on the Range.
Fine sheep sold.
Messrs. Powell and Bro. have disposed
of Carload of two-yesr-old Herefords
for spring delivery, and ten head Of
Polled Angus for delivery in December
The cattle 20 10 West Texas ana the Pan
handle.
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Captain c. W. McGee, of the Fort
Worth stock firm Of X E Maddox & Co.,
returned yesterday morning f1om Mis-
sissippi, where he has been for the pass
six ueeks. He disposed Of Car of mares
and FIVE cars CT what are said to have
been the finest mules that ever went Out
of Texas.
Parties lately returning from the stock
markets whittier they had gone with beet
wear lock of Cheeriulness to which the
beef producers face has been stranger q !
summer. The secret is So OF for csttle--
a mere, psltry IS 05, but an addition OF
about So over prices lately ruling on each
Panhandle steer marketed.-I Mobeetie
Panhandle.
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Menard county, recently sid by Patter-
son Bros. & Co, Chicago, were the
heaviest shorn sheep ever shlppei from
Western Texas, weighing out in Chicago,
after hard trip, l22 pounds per head.
They We're danuies snd sold at So so per
CWt., which is the best price realized for
shorn sheep in Chicago since August
San Angelo Standard.
The Colorado Clipper says that parties
coming il from the plains north last
week reported that a large scope of
country mad been burned OF during the
past ten days. The fires began on the
west side of the. Estscado road and
extended fully fifty miles north and south
and west considerable distance. 1t is
thought that the rain has extended far
enough in That direction to extinguish the
blaze.
Mr.. n. r. Powell, The Fort Worth stock
dealer, who has been in Missouri for
week or more, returned to the city last
night. He hiss purchased, and will have
arrive in d day or so, several carloads of
thoroughbred and graded stock, Dur
hams, Polled Angus, Here ords,
and 6 drove of the celebrated
Cruikshank shorthorns. The cattle are
mostly tWo.Year- bulls and heifers.
Mr.. Powell says the markets in Missouri
are rather dull for all kinds of stock. As
for mules, there is positively nothing do
ing.
There is 70 class OF people more inter-
ested in the Union Stockysrds of Fort
Worth, than sre The Fort Worth people
themselves. A dealer who does business
II the city said last night: "Those
Union Stockysrds are going to do more
for the city than any other enterprise she
has ever undertaken. They will make the
city headquarters for all puT-.
chasers of Texas stock. As an
example Of what I mean l viii
relse an incident. Lsst winter I
received 8 letter from Mont8na stock
man VINO wished TO buy up large num-
Der of Texas two-year-olds, and who
wanted to know how long time it would
take him after he came to Fort Worth to
see a bunch Of l00C tWo-year old cattle,
all together. Well, didn't know. You
see, there are plenty Of stockmen within
an easy distance from here who have
that many of that kind of stock, but
whether he could get them together for
inspection within a reasonable time OF
not | couldn't tell. | answered, how
ever, that ten or fifteen days would be
required. He wrote me that that was
great deal more time tnan he could spare
Now, that is the case with great many
buyers. They do not know where to go
to see the stock they want, and If q
place can be provided where
they know they can find what they want,
that is the place they will flock to, snd
that is the place the seller will bring his
stock to dispose of it, for he knows the
buyers will all be there. The great point
is to get the buyers here. There is no
trouble about getting up competition
among sellers, but when you get the buy
ers competing, you have got the business
grabbed, end the csttle business of Texas
is no small thing"
Mr.. T. C. Hunt, a ranger cattleman
was in the city last night. He is return
ing home from delivering $40 head of
feeding steers to j. j. GldGiDgs OF
Ellis county. Z lis county, says Mr.
Hunt, is feeding large number Of cattle
this winter. They are feeding on every
thing, corn, cotton seed, roots, grain and
hsy. The stock will rough it to large tx
tent this year and will be smoothed OFF .
grass IN the spring. Speaking
of the shipments from the
west, Mr.. Hunt says the
great difficulty with western shippers is
TIE scarcity of cars on the railroads. To
show how this affected the stock business
he said he had been compelled to drive
the stock he had just delivered across
country from Esstlsnd county to Ellis
county. great deal of expense had been
put on the western people on this account.
A shipper would drive his c.itle into the
pens and after having them cramped up
there till they were falling of
in flesh and becoming generally broken
up. would take them back On the range to
pick up bit; then he would bring them
to the pens, and perhaps have to take
them back again. This occurred with
some csttlemen so often that they were
compelled to place their stock back on the
range for the winter, and will wait till
spring to ship. OF course these people
Will be better of in the spring, for al
confidently expect far better prices them"
said Mr.. Hunt. "Fhe best investment
msn can put his money in this fall is
Young steers. There is no doubt that